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World Quotes by Alice Walker

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Alice Walker imagines a world where conflicts are met with pillows filled with food, medicine, and music, turning war into kindness. She reminds us that a spark lives inside every person, and that sharing our true feelings is a natural act. She also says women have the right to choose their companions and that artists must speak up when governments fail.

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“I feel peace with the world.”

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

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To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

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I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

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My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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“She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away…

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.…

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I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are…

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People…

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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people…

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that…

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the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and…

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Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the…

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As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and…

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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you…

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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness -…

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June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty…

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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world,…

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I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to…

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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is…

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During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into…

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small…

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I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is…

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Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.…

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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“Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?”

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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

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It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

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The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

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You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

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I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were…

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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are…

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If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music...…

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Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

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Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.…

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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending…

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Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my…